The Shaykh’s clarification that it is permissible for a resident to combine the two prayers due to need, without shortening the prayer.
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Al-Halabi: No second factor enters into the matter for us, the matter of hardship or other activities for the sake of combining for the traveler. That is, this traveler’s ruling does not become like that of the resident in his own land. For example, a student comes to me, and now there are students from Oman who have come; their government sent them for ten or fifteen days to register and settle in, and they will return... That is, they know they can say to them, "You have two weeks here." The ruling for these two weeks is not like the ruling of the one who resides in his home in his own land. So does a second factor enter in for him to shorten the prayer?
Al-Albani: A second factor? May Allah reward you, you hinted that this ruling pertains to the resident by origin. The resident by origin, if he would face hardship by not combining, then he combines, but he does not shorten. So this is the one whose origin is a traveler, and let us suppose that he combined in a state where he felt hardship in praying every prayer in its time, then he is allowed to combine like the resident by origin. That is the case, but he is not allowed to shorten.
Abu Malik: As for this hadith, it is the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas:Sahih Muslim 706b It defines this situation very precisely, meaning this defines the concept of travel.
The Shaykh: And people are heedless of it.
The questioner: What is the connection: in travel.
The Shaykh: No, it is not in travel, but in this residence:Sahih Muslim 706b He was asked: What did he intend by that? He said: Sahih Muslim 706b.
Abu Malik: Without rain or fear.
The Shaykh: Yes; but this, in reality, some people took it without the completion or without the reasoning, that the Messenger combined without a cause, and that was to remove hardship. So he legislated combining the two prayers so as not to burden his Ummah.
The questioner: As for shortening, it does not occur except in travel.
The Shaykh: Except in travel.
Al-Albani: A second factor? May Allah reward you, you hinted that this ruling pertains to the resident by origin. The resident by origin, if he would face hardship by not combining, then he combines, but he does not shorten. So this is the one whose origin is a traveler, and let us suppose that he combined in a state where he felt hardship in praying every prayer in its time, then he is allowed to combine like the resident by origin. That is the case, but he is not allowed to shorten.
Abu Malik: As for this hadith, it is the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas:
he (the Holy Prophet) wanted that his Ummah should not be put to (unnecessary) hardship.
أراد أن لا يحرج أمتهThe Shaykh: And people are heedless of it.
The questioner: What is the connection:
So as not to burden his Ummah
كي لا يحرج أمتهThe Shaykh: No, it is not in travel, but in this residence:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) combined in the expedition to Tabuk the noon prayer with the afternoon prayer and the sunset prayer with the 'Isha' prayer.
جمع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في المدينة بين الظهر والعصر وبين المغرب والعشاءhe (the Holy Prophet) wanted that his Ummah should not be put to (unnecessary) hardship.
أرد أن لا يحرج أمتهAbu Malik: Without rain or fear.
The Shaykh: Yes; but this, in reality, some people took it without the completion or without the reasoning, that the Messenger combined without a cause, and that was to remove hardship. So he legislated combining the two prayers so as not to burden his Ummah.
The questioner: As for shortening, it does not occur except in travel.
The Shaykh: Except in travel.
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